Call light systems...

[deespoohbear]

I am going to a meeting today regarding call light systems. Our hospital is getting ready to build a new facility and I have been invited to a meeting to look over new call light systems for our new facility. Any suggestions? The call light system we have now probably evolved around the time of WW1. Just your standard push the button, light comes on, nurse or CNA goes to room, turns light off, and tends to pt's needs/wishes.....

Surely in this day and age there is something more advanced....any ideas would be welcomed. Thanks....

[tattooednursie, LVN]

Ours is very simple. They press a button, a light goes off over their room, and a light shows up at a panel by the nurses station making this annoying ding ding ding sound and it shows the room number.

[jaxnRN]

We have the same system with the badge we wear and can be tracked and HUNTED DOWN by the unit clerk! At first I wondered if it would make the security alarms go off at Wal Mart but it didn't!

Now I just worry that the darn things will give us breast cancer!

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

If you bring the union into the picture before deciding on one system or another you may prevent some conflicts after you've already put out money to purchase a system.

[Tilleycs]

Hey Cindy, I'm actually working at Hill-Rom! I'm in the computer field and thinking about going into nursing. I'm a technical writer (contractor) and documenting their nurse call systems! I'm at their Cary, NC, location.

Cool! "It's a small world, after all..." :)

[deespoohbear]

Don't have a union.....